Eldrazi Archenemy, any ideas?

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Posted on March 5, 2016, 3:59 a.m. by TheDracogenius

The evil plans of Ulamog and Kozilek are finally revealed

I recently began to construct a Kozilek, the Great Distortion EDH deck and thought to myself:

How sweet would it be to have an Eldrazi EDH deck as the Archenemy at the table, unleashing hordes of drones and scions and having the opponents team up like the Gatewatch to defeat the Eldrazi menace?

If you are not familiar with Archenemy, the Professor from Tolarian Community College has released a great video explaining the format. The idea is that one person, the Archenemy, gets a deck of scheme cards and reveales one of them every upkeep and gets the effect on the card. He also starts with a higher life total depending on the number of his enemies. His opponents, ideally three to four, are trying to defeat the Archenemy as one team, taking their turn simultainously. You can technically apply these rules in every format, but in EDH it works the best.

I started coming up with some ideas for custom Eldrazi scheme cards to be used with my deck in multiplayer EDH. The schemes should be in flavor with the Eldrazi and feel like Ulamog and Kozilek are the evil masterminds behind them. I would like to get to about 15 different cards for the deck, some of them will be included only once and others will be included twice or more.

So far I have come up with these:

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Eldrazi Contamination

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, search your library for up to four cards named Wastes, put up to two of them onto the battlefield and the remainig cards into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Your world will be nothing but dust!

Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it is abandoned.)

All lands are Wastes and effects that would produce colored mana produce colorless mana instead.

At the beginning of each endstep, if every opponent played a land this turn, abandon this scheme.

The endless brood will never stop!

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, put five 1/1 colorless eldrazi scion creature tokens onto the battlefield under your control. They have "Sacrafice this creature: Add to your mana pool".

Twins that terrorize the lands

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay . If you do, put two X/X colorless eldrazi creature tokens with ingest onto the battlefield under your control.

Rise of the False Gods

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, search your library for up to one colorless eldrazi creature and put it into your hand. Eldrazi spells you play this turn cost less to cast.

Eldrazi Inquisition

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent reveals his or her hand. You may choose a card from each hand and exile it, then each opponent exile the top three cards of his or her library.

Presence of the Great Distortion

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, you may search your library for a card named Kozilek, Butcher of Truth or Kozilek, the Great Distortion and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. If you do, draw four cards.

Presence of the Ceaseless Hunger

Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, you may search your library for a card named Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. If you do, choose one permanent from each opponent that player controls and exile it.

None of these cards should break the fundamental rules of MTG. Most of the cards are designed to be scalable, so that it is good at any point in the game to scheme into them but not completely busted in the early turns.

If you have any ideas for new scheme cards, want to change something about the ones I already listed or think that some of the schemes are to oppressive, feel free to leave comment below! Any information about rules violations by these cards or better wording are also appreciated!

nayrash5 says... #2

Possible Scheme card that references Emrakul, without directly summoning her.

Aeons Unbound, Scheme: After the first postcombat main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all colourless creatures you control.

Thanks World at War for that wording. xD

March 5, 2016 6:20 a.m.

TheDracogenius says... #3

Thank you for that idea, nayrash5!

This is exactly the type of cards I was looking for! I had the problem that Emrakul is not legal in commander, so I did not want to make cards that would feel out of place if she is not in the deck, but this is a clever design and will be used!

March 5, 2016 6:32 a.m.

atomic_moose says... #4

If you are making a deck specifically to play 1 vs 3, Emrakul could totally be legal. They're your cards, do whatever you and your friends agree on. I would love to try and fight the Eldrazi Pantheon in an archenemy game.

March 8, 2016 5:51 p.m.